Join us for an evening of literary exploration and engaging conversation with our esteemed guests at the upcoming event. Here's a glimpse of what to expect:
Event Schedule:
5:30pm - 6:00pm - Doors & Bar Open
6:00pm - 7:00pm - Book Discussion
7:00pm - 7:15pm - Q&A
7:15pm - 7:30pm - Book Signing
7:30pm - 8:00pm - Drinks/Mingling
With Guests:
Lukas Tallent lives in New York City. His recent work has appeared in The Forge, Vast Chasm, Bull: Men’s Fiction, and many other places. His chapbook, The Compromising Position, is available now from Bottlecap Press. You can find more of him at lukastallent.substack.com.
Jonathan Stone’s recent comic novel, The Prison Minyan, is currently optioned to Sony Pictures. He has published ten novels, including the e-bestsellers Moving Day and The Teller. His short stories have appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2016, New Haven Noir, Die Laughing, and four Mystery Writers of America anthologies: The Mystery Box; Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War; When A Stranger Comes to Town; and Crime Hits Home. He recently retired from a 40-year career in advertising, is married, and has an adult son and daughter. Learn more at jonathanstonebooks.com.
Michael Robert Liska has had his fiction published in Epoch, The End, and on McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and he has a piece forthcoming in the inaugural anthology from Heresy Press, Nothing Sacred: Outspoken Voices in Contemporary Fiction. He also co-hosts the lowbrow Shakespeare podcast What Ho...A Rat!! He is a graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at Rutgers Newark, and currently lives on the Delaware River with a German shepherd.
Lou Perez is a comedian, writer, and producer. He's the author of That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore and hosts The Lou Perez Podcast and The Wrong Take debate series. Lou was the head writer and producer of the Webby Award-winning comedy channel We the Internet TV. He has appeared on Gutfeld and Open to Debate.
Book Synopsis: (https://heresy-press.com/product/nothing-sacred/)
Exploring uncharted literary territory, Nothing Sacred: Outspoken Voices in Contemporary Fiction offers the reading public a compilation of spellbinding stories on topics as diverse as crumbling male privilege, moonshine whiskey brewing, language policing, immigrant experience, sexual transgression, and plain heresy.
At a time when the American publishing industry increasingly perceives fiction lovers as rather delicate creatures—easily offended, allergic to ambiguity, afraid to venture outside their comfort zones—Nothing Sacred: Outspoken Voices in Contemporary Fiction was born of the opposite assumption. While the twelve authors represented in this anthology could scarcely be more diverse in their worldviews, cultural backgrounds, thematic obsessions, and prose styles, they all share two attributes: an abiding respect for their readers, and a ravenous appetite for audacity. Among the characters you’ll encounter in these stories are a former child star who fears he has become just another piece of Hollywood jetsam; a band of Cuban immigrant children determined to celebrate Independence Day on their own terms; a Holocaust survivor turned serial killer; an alternate-history Malcolm X confronting J. Edgar Hoover’s squad of zombies; a medical student who supports himself by starring in video porn; a rogue AI in thrall to a notorious Christian heresy; and a Tennessee Trump voter with a gift for making moonshine whiskey and spouting colorful rhetoric.
Paperback
Page count: 280
Trim size: 6 x 9 in.
ISBN: 979-8-9887173-0-0